In the local newspapers and on the evening news, we’re seeing images of the Iowa River breaching its banks. As we know, this is not the first time. The Iowa Digital Library has images and descriptions of previous floods in the Irving Weber’s Iowa City Digital Collection, from the Iowa City Town and Campus ScenesContinue reading “Historical Images of the Iowa River”

During the mid-13th century, scribe William de Brailes and his students painstakingly wrote out and hand-decorated a number of Bibles, Psalters, and other religious works. Today, more than seven centuries later, an original page from de Brailes’ workshop resides in a vault in the Special Collections Department of The University of Iowa Libraries — oneContinue reading “Iowa Digital Library Hits 100,000 Items”

The University of Iowa Libraries has compiled the Campus Maps Digital Collection, documenting nearly 150 years of UI campus building development. This digital collection, at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/campusmaps, documents the growth of the UI, with 97 items dated from 1892 to 2004. The collection — drawn from University Archives — includes maps from course catalogs, a 1893Continue reading “UI Libraries Compiles Digital Campus Map Collection”

 Audio Slideshow: View a Quicktime movie narrated by Jen Wolfe, metadata librarian for Digital Library Services,  and showing items from the University of Iowa Libraries’ collection memorabilia from Mildred Wirt Benson, who penned many of the “Nancy Drew” mystery novels. Small movie (42MB): http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/june/images/ui-nancy-drew-collection-small.mov Large movie (97MB): http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/june/images/ui-nancy-drew-collection.mov  Since its debut in 1930, the NancyContinue reading “Nancy Drew Author in the Iowa Digital Library”